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COMBINED DISH-DRAINER, STEAMER, ROASTER, 0R BAKING-PAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1914.

Application filed April 8, 1913. Serial No. 759,732.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK B. BEAM, a. citizenof the United States, residing at Anamosa, in the county of Jones andState of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in CombinedDish Drainers, Steamers, Roasters, or Baking- Pans, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention is an improved combined dish drainer, steamer and roasteror baking pan, the object of the invention b ein to provide an improvedarticle of this ind which is extremely cheap and simple, is strong anddurable and which may be used either for draining dishes or as a steameror roasting pan.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangementof devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of acombined dish drainer, steamer and roaster constructed in accordancewith my invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is avertical longitudinal central sectional view of the same, for use as aroasting or baking pan. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the same arrangedfor use as a dish drainer or steamer. 'Fig. 5 is a detail horizontalsectional view on the plane indicated by the line w-a of ig. 4:. Fig. 6is a detail perspective view of the drainer or steamer pan. Fig. 7 is adetail sectional View, showing a modification of the construction of thepan.

My improved dish drainer, steamer and roaster consists essentially of apan 1, a drainer 3. The pan, which may be made of any suit-able materialand which may be of any suitable size, has cutwardly and upwardlyinclined side walls 4 and end walls 5 and the upper edges of the sideand end walls are bent around a reinforcing wire 6. At the centers ofthe end walls are pivotally attached handles 7. In the corners of thepan at points a suitable distance above the bottom thereof are invertedtriangular supporting lugs 8 which are struck up therefrom and projectinwardly so that each lug forms a sup orting shoulder 9 at its upper,broadest en The cover 2 has upwardly converging inclin side walls 10 andend walls 11 and the latter are provided at their centers with-pivotallyconnected handles 12. The cover as an outwardly projecting reinforcedflange 13 at its lower side extending around its side and end walls andis adapted to fit on the upper side of the pan and to be readily liftedand removed therefrom. I

When the pan and the cover are used without the drainer, the device isadapted to be used as a steamer or roasting or baking pan, as will beunderstood. 'When the device is for use as a dish drainer, the drainingelement 3 is employed in addition to the pan and cover.

, The drainer is of a size and shape adapting the same to fit in theupper portion of the pan, has inclined downwardly converging side walls14 and end walls 15 and is formed in its corners with recesses 16 whichare struck up and are of a size and shape adapting them to receive thelugs 8, the tops of the said recesses forming stops 17 which bear on theshoulders 9 that form the upper ends of the lugs. Hence, the drainer isadapted to fit in the upper portion of the pan and to project above thesame. The drainer is provided with an outwardly extending flange at theupper sides of its side and end walls to bear on the upper edges of theside and end walls of the pan as shown.

' The drainer is provided with pivoted handles 18 at the centers of itsend Walls. Its bottom 19 is formed with transverse corrugations 20 andwith openings 21 in the bottoms of the channels between the ridgesformed by the corrugations. The central portion of the bottom of thedrainer is formed with a cross sectionally inverted V- shapedtransversely arranged upwardly extending support 22 which is integralwith thebottom and the baseof which forms a transverse central opening23 in the bottom. This support projects above the side walls of thedrainer and when the device is in use, dishes nd the like articles to bedrained are placed on the bottom of the drainer and those which are nearthe center of the drainer are arranged to bear against and be supportedby the cone, as '11 be understood.

The cover may be placed on the upper side of the drainer to cover thelatter and the dishes and if the device is placed on a. stove and asuitable quantity of water poured in the pan an from the water will becaused to thoroughly cleanse the dishes and the latter will beefiectually drained. Certain articles can also be steamed advantageouslyby the use of the drainer in connection with the pan and cover, as willhe understood.

d heated, the steam In Fig. 7, I show a modified construction of myinvention in which the supporting lugs and coacting recesses of the panand drainer are dispensed with and the walls of the pan are formedjecting supporting beador flange 24 for engaging the lower side of thedrainer and supporting the latter at the appropriate elevation in thepan.

I claim I In combination with a pan having inwardly projectingsupporting elements at its corners, arranged at a point below its upperedge, a drainerarranged to fit in the with an inwardly proupper portionof the pan and having supporting means to bear on said supportingdevices of the pan, and a cover arranged to fit on the upper side of thedrainer when latand fit directly on the ter is in use in the pan whenthe drainer has FRANK B. BEAM. Witnesses

